pendant

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OK, trans community – it’s truth time. One of the biggest differences between the way women are treated and the way that y’all are treated is that y’all are allowed to have safe spaces. You’re allowed to have subreddits that are trans-only, places and events that are just for you. We’re not.

When I tried to start a subreddit for female humans, for example (including the ones who identify as men) so that we had a place to talk about female things, it lasted less than a week, and the admins performed a delicate little dance before banning us for “hate.” They temp-banned me and all my mods, then banned the whole community because we weren’t able to take down the anti-trans posts that were clearly against our rules - and that didn’t appear until after we were tempbanned. Hmm.

Women get nothing: not subreddits, not dating apps, not even an app for women in general. No bathrooms, no changing rooms, no sports of our own; hell, we can’t even get away from y’all in prison! Any female-only event y’all get to hearing about is targeted by protesters, often violent ones, invariably carrying signs threatening harm or encouraging suicide — lovely behavior from people who constantly quote trans suicide statistics as if it’s the biggest crisis on the planet, btw.

Any women’s shelter or rape crisis center that is female-only is also targeted: the sole remaining women’s rape crisis center in all of Canada has been repeatedly vandalized with threatening graffiti, and even had a dead rat nailed to its door. This, in a city with 6 other rape counseling centers available, all of them trans-friendly. It’s not about being denied access to services — it’s sick, twisted, furious hatred at even the idea of women having anything of our own.

You have taken it all: our spaces, our sports, and our safety. You’ve taken our privacy, our dignity, our right to single-sex incarceration, and our right to single-sex intimate care. You’ve taken our identities, and the words we use to name ourselves.

You want us to agree that being female means nothing, is nothing, deserves nothing - no recognition, no separate existence — not even a name. We are “uterus-havers,” “menstruators,” “bleeders,” and “people with cervixes.” “Women” belongs to you now, and you’re even coming for “female.”

You’re taking everything we are, piece by piece — and what do we get in return, for the theft of the names you took from us? “C*s” — a prefix that sidelines us in our own demographic, and which privately, the trans community uses as a slur.

What good little colonizers you’ve turned out to be.

[–] pendant@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago

vexxed.org has this as their footer quote lol

[–] pendant@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

good to call out the truth, but they don't care about the truth. it's about exercising raw power

 

https://archive.is/CIQNz

more misandristic than straight terfy but posted in gender critical. probably due to the idea terfs have of "trans cult preys on autistic kids"

[–] pendant@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] pendant@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"trans-identified male" it's their shitty way of saying trans woman

[–] pendant@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

it's a silly comment from a terf but you're right it leans more towards RF than TE

[–] pendant@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

This is a bad article. It starts off by referencing a tweet:

(a friend who is a literary agent told me that he cannot even get editors to read first novels by young white male writers, no matter how good; they are just not interested. this is heartbreaking for writers who may, in fact, be brilliant, & critical of their own "privilege.")

It tries to make the claim that the reason is "more a matter of the industry’s collapsing social value than it is of feminist or woke ideology", but never disputes the referenced tweet.

The article wants to sneer but just ends up being petty and pointless.

[–] pendant@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (6 children)

we all gotta start somewhere

[–] pendant@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Referencing something doesn't mean you approve of it

[–] pendant@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (8 children)

YDI. !fuck_ai@lemmy.world is cringe. Let people enjoy things

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